Ansible Fundamentals

Material associated with Ansible Fundamentals webinar

Getting Started

• Install docker toolbox for Mac or [Windows] (https://www.docker.com/products/docker-toolbox) [*] (#windows-disclaimer)

  • Install docker-engine and [docker-compose] (https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/) for Linux

• Clone this repo to your local computer

cd ~/
git clone https://github.com/daveyb/ansible-fundamentals.git

• Change into the demo directory and bring up the ansible sandbox cluster (this will take a few minutes)

cd ~/ansible-fundamentals/demo
docker-compose up -d

• Connect to the control machine and run the playbook

docker exec -it demo_control_1 /bin/bash
ansible-playbook playbook.yml

Stopping the Cluster

docker-compose down

Rebuild the Cluster from scratch

docker-compose up --build

Windows Disclaimer

The latest docker toolbox for Windows 10 preview includes support for Linux containers via Hyper-V virtualization. This configuration has not been tested.